Lead Paint Studies: Finding the Problem, then Fixing It

Though lead-based paint was banned from household use in 1978, lead poisoning hasn't gone away — especially in kids. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that more than 300,000 children nationwide under age 5 have dangerously high levels of lead in their blood.That number is far lower than it was 30 years ago, but no one should underestimate the problem, says Patricia McLaine, SPH '87 (MPH). "We need to use what political will we have to get rid of these lead sources that have been poisoning children here for close to 100 years." A Bloomberg School of Public Health doctoral candidate in environmental health and former Hopkins School of Nursing faculty member, McLaine recently co-authored two papers on reducing lead levels efficiently and inexpensively.Read more at...Johns Hopkins Magazine, November 2006.